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  • According to data graphed by the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services, shooting incidents involving injury in Albany County peaked in 2020 at over 120; similarly, the number of shooting victims hit peaked at 100 in 2020 while the number of people killed by guns in Albany County peaked in 2021 at nearly 20. By 2024, those numbers for Albany County had declined to about 60 people injured or hit and fewer than 10 people killed.

  • Supervisor Peter Barber ran through a list of recommendations based on his reading of the plan, which ranged from updating data and photographs in a number of places to some larger issues on which the public had also commented: including a distinct section on town character, conserving the pine bush, encouraging affordable housing, and preserving Altamont.

  • BETHLEHEM — Work is underway on a path that will connect pedestrians and cyclists in neighborhood

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